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Record 3440

Reading Experience:

Evidence:
[Annotation]: Beside the printed words 'Just Publish'd', Peter Cunningham has added '(1744)' and [? - semi-legible - 'To Night 6' followed by [legible] '& Night-Thoughts'.
Century: 1800-1849, 1850-1899
Date: unknown
Country: n/a
Time: n/a
Place: n/a
   
Type of Experience (Reader):
silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown
Type of Experience (Listener):
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Reader/Listener/Reading Group:

Reader:Peter Cunningham
Age Adult (18-100+)
Gender Male
Date of Birth 1816
Socio-economic group: Professional / academic / merchant / farmer
Occupation: Writer and bibliographer
Religion: n/a
Country of origin: n/a
Country of experience: n/a
Listeners present if any:
(e.g. family, servants, friends, workmates)
n/a
Additional comments: n/a

 

Text Being Read:

Author:
Title: A Collection of Fifty Old Plays
Genre: Drama, Advertisement of plays
Form of Text: Print: Advertisement
Publication details: The Advertisement states that the plays will be 'Printed for R. Dodsley, at Tully's Head, Pall-Mall'. The year is 1744.
Provenance: owned

 

Source Information:

Record ID: 3440  
  Source - Manuscript
  Author: Peter Cunningham
  Title: Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers
  Location: National Library of Scotland
  Call no: John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E)
  Page/folio: n/a

Citation: Peter Cunningham, Cunningham's Lives of Eminent Booksellers National Library of Scotland, p. John Murray Archive, MS. 42150 (430E), http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=3440, accessed: 02 May 2024

Additional comments:

This loose leaf is in a folder in the John Murray Archive, of Cunningham's working notes. At the time of writing, the NLS was in the process of recataloguing the Murray Archive. The MS call number should therefore be checked at source.

 

 

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